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Author : Reyna Grande
Release : 2007-05-15
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 586/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Across a Hundred Mountains by : Reyna Grande
Download or read book Across a Hundred Mountains written by Reyna Grande. This book was released on 2007-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grande puts a human face on the epic story about those who make it across the border into America, those who never make it across, and those who are left behind.
Author : Reyna Grande
Release : 2006-06-20
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 180/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Across a Hundred Mountains by : Reyna Grande
Download or read book Across a Hundred Mountains written by Reyna Grande. This book was released on 2006-06-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the American Book Award, Across a Hundred Mountains is a “timely and riveting” (People) novel about a young girl who leaves her small town in Mexico to find her father, who left his family to work in America—a story of migration, loss, and discovery. After a tragedy separates her from her mother, Juana García leaves in search of her father, who left them two years earlier. Out of money and in need of someone to help her across the border, Juana meets Adelina Vasquez, a young woman who left her family in California to follow her lover to Mexico. Finding themselves—in a Tijuana jail—in desperate circumstances, they offer each other much needed material and spiritual support and ultimately become linked forever in the most unexpected of ways. In Across a Hundred Mountains, Reyna Grande puts a human face on the controversial issue of immigration, helping readers to better understand “the desperation of illegal immigrants and the families they leave behind” (Entertainment Weekly) in pursuit of a better life.
Author : Reyna Grande
Release : 2006
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Across a Hundred Mountains by : Reyna Grande
Download or read book Across a Hundred Mountains written by Reyna Grande. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grande puts a human face on the epic story about those who make it across the border into America, those who never make it across, and those who are left behind.
Author : Reyna Grande
Release : 2019-07-02
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 437/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Dream Called Home by : Reyna Grande
Download or read book A Dream Called Home written by Reyna Grande. This book was released on 2019-07-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling author of the remarkable memoir, The Distance Between Us comes an inspiring account of one woman’s quest to find her place in America as a first-generation Latina university student and aspiring writer determined to build a new life for her family one fearless word at a time. “Here is a life story so unbelievable, it could only be true” (Sandra Cisneros, bestselling author of The House on Mango Street). As an immigrant in an unfamiliar country, with an indifferent mother and abusive father, Reyna had few resources at her disposal. Taking refuge in words, Reyna’s love of reading and writing propels her to rise above until she achieves the impossible and is accepted to the University of California, Santa Cruz. Although her acceptance is a triumph, the actual experience of American college life is intimidating and unfamiliar for someone like Reyna, who is now estranged from her family and support system. Again, she finds solace in words, holding fast to her vision of becoming a writer, only to discover she knows nothing about what it takes to make a career out of a dream. Through it all, Reyna is determined to make the impossible possible, going from undocumented immigrant of little means to “a fierce, smart, shimmering light of a writer” (Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild); a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist whose “power is growing with every book” (Luis Alberto Urrea, Pultizer Prize finalist); and a proud mother of two beautiful children who will never have to know the pain of poverty and neglect. Told in Reyna’s exquisite, heartfelt prose, A Dream Called Home demonstrates how, by daring to pursue her dreams, Reyna was able to build the one thing she had always longed for: a home that would endure.
Author : Reyna Grande
Release : 2012
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 789/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Distance Between Us by : Reyna Grande
Download or read book The Distance Between Us written by Reyna Grande. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the author's experiences as an illegal child immigrant, describing her father's violent alcoholism, her efforts to obtain a higher education, and the inspiration of Latina authors.
